Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 13:16:25 -0500 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: hardware notes (mobo recommendations?) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020302130333.04d20ba8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020302180752.GD351@roman.mobil.cz> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020302122356.04d20e70@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> <20020302172803.GB351@roman.mobil.cz> <5.1.0.14.0.20020302122356.04d20e70@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
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At 19:07 2002/03/02 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 12:33:41 -0500 > > > > From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> > > Subject: Re: hardware notes (mobo recommendations?) > > > > At 18:28 2002/03/02 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > >Ok, end of rant. My motherboard just went south, and I'm looking for a > > >good mobo for a Duron CPU. Recommendations? > > > > > > Just that the ASUS A7A266 has troubles with X. (IIRC, when I first > > realized it might be the board and not the card, when I searched, this was > > known about in Release 4.3---haven't done an update in a few weeks, but as > > of early Feb. the problem still existed) > > Could you expand a bit on this? What problems did you have? When I first installed FreeBSD on the box (4.2 IIRC) never got X working better than something 300x120. Went back to FreeBSD around 4.4 and still never did get X working well on the box. At the time, I thought it was due to having a Voodoo5 card. Research indicated that some people had it working right out of the box, using the Voodoo3 driver but that there were various things to try---I don't remember them all now, but last time I did a search for Voodoo5 FreeBSD Xfree86 my posts to this list were among the first to come up, where I detailed the steps I had taken. In Xfree 3.x I could get 600x400, I believe, possibly even 800x600, but that was the best it would do. This was only in FreeBSD--in MS and various flavors of Linux, there was no problem I gave up and downgraded to a Matrox G200. Xfree 3.x would give me somewhat poor quality at 1024 x 768, but Xfree 4.x didn't work. Trying various things such as (argh, I forget the exact command syntax now, but something like XFree86 -config--at the time, the syntax was correct) would result in the machine spontaneously rebooting with no warning and no entries in the Xfree log file--same result when I would do startx. At this point, began suspecting the MB as this card not only worked fine with MS and Linux but also with Solaris (which hadn't worked right with the Voodoo5). Did some more deja searching, this time putting in the MB and found that others had had similar problems back in 4.3 and, IIRC, it was being considered a bug. At that point, I gave up. Upgraded to 4.5 (did a fresh install, as for BSD this is simply a test box) and managed to get Xfree 4.2 before it was downgraded in ports--same problem. Did another install after it was downgraded, and this time tried Xfree 4.1 but again, no joy. I've gotten it to work adequately in X (I don't use it very much as a desktop) with Xfree 3.x but not with 4.x. At present, this will do, so I haven't kept up to date with it since the very beginning of February. I'm not a hardware master, so there may be other factors involved--after seeing that others were also having trouble with the A7A266 with no simple workarounds, I more or less gave up on it, as I have other boxes that work as a desktop for me. Hope this is of some use to you Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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